WORLD HISTORY MIDTERM REVIEW

Question 1

What was the time period when ideas and inventions spread with trade between Europe and Asia?

Accepted Answer

Pax Mongolica

Question 2

Most Muslims today are members of which branch of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Sunni

Question 3

What is the term given to any lands ruled by Muslims and governed by Islamic law?

Accepted Answer

dar al-Islam

Question 4

West African trading empires benefitted from trade routes that linked them with which regions?

Accepted Answer

North Africa and the Arabian peninsula

Question 5

What was the new class of Japanese military servant whose job was to protect his employer?

Accepted Answer

Samurai

Question 6

Who was the first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity?

Accepted Answer

Constantine

Question 7

Muslim expansion into Europe was halted with which battle?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Tours

Question 8

What military campaign's goal of the Middle Ages was to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims?

Accepted Answer

Crusades

Question 9

Who created the largest land empire in world history?

Accepted Answer

the Mongols

Question 10

What name was given to the eastern Roman empire that continued to flourish after Rome's fall?

Accepted Answer

Byzantine Empire

Question 11

Which historical document of the Middle Ages strengthened the idea of limited government?

Accepted Answer

Magna Carta

Question 12

How were conquered peoples treated by the first Muslim Empire?

Accepted Answer

Conquered peoples were tolerated but taxed more.

Question 13

Caused by invading forces, what was the new political and social system of the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

feudal system

Question 14

What was the trans-Atlantic slave trade's greatest effect on the continent of Africa?

Accepted Answer

the shift of about 12 million people to the Americas

Question 15

Who resisted Kublai Khan's invasion when a kamikaze destroyed the Mongol fleet?

Accepted Answer

the Japanese

Question 16

What term is given to a group of villages organized by clans and led by a local ruler?

Accepted Answer

stateless societies

Question 17

Russia's unique location led to civil debate and tensions over

Accepted Answer

its cultural connections to both Europe and Asia.

Question 18

What was the shift from food-gathering in nomadic lifestyles to food-producing as farmers?

Accepted Answer

the Neolithic Revolution

Question 19

What was the court created by the Catholic Church to find and try heretics?

Accepted Answer

Inquisition

Question 20

Shiite Muslims form majorities in which countries that were once ruled by the Persian Empire?

Accepted Answer

Iran and Iraq

Question 21

What are the major duties required of all Muslims?

Accepted Answer

Five Pillars of Islam

Question 22

Why did Christianity spread so quickly throughout the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

It embraced all people, young-old, rich-poor, men-women.

Question 23

Renaissance people were becoming more interested in worldly, or __________, pursuits.

Accepted Answer

secular

Question 24

How did West African empires of the Sahel grow strong?

Accepted Answer

by controlling and taxing trade

Question 25

Which of the following artists is NOT associated with the High Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Picasso

Question 26

Which social hierarchy did the Aryans bring to India?

Accepted Answer

the caste system

Question 27

What did the Crusades and the Black Death both help contribute?

Accepted Answer

the disruption and breakdown in the feudal system

Question 28

What was the greatest center of commerce in Medieval Europe, a bridge between east and west?

Accepted Answer

Constantinople

Question 29

How was the religion of Judaism different from other religions of early civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Judaism was monotheistic.

Question 30

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of civilization?

Accepted Answer

the use of simple tools

Question 31

Developed in Athens, what was the new form of government in which citizens exercised power?

Accepted Answer

democracy

Question 32

What was the campaign to drive Muslims out of Spain during the Middle Ages called?

Accepted Answer

Reconquista

Question 33

Meaning "struggle in the way of God," what is fair, defensive warfare as allowed by the Quran?

Accepted Answer

jihad

Question 34

What was the Chinese belief that government should be open to all men of superior talent?

Accepted Answer

a Confucian belief

Question 35

Which group was most responsible for the spread of the Black Death to Europe?

Accepted Answer

merchants and traders

Question 36

Water served as a unifying force as the Roman Empire encircled the

Accepted Answer

Mediterranean Sea.

Question 37

Which of the following led to an increased demand for African slaves in the Americas?

Accepted Answer

the growth of staple crops, such as sugar cane and tobacco

Question 38

What was the term given to the blending of Greek culture with Persian and Egyptian cultures?

Accepted Answer

Hellenistic

Question 39

In which region did civilization first emerge?

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia

Question 40

What was the trade route that flourished between the Mediterranean and Asian civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Silk Road

Question 41

What became the long-term consequences of the Crusades?

Accepted Answer

centuries of mistrust between Christians and Muslims

Question 42

What did people of early civilizations depend most in sustaining agriculture?

Accepted Answer

the flooding of rivers that provided rich soil

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